Camille Douglas is currently a Managing Director at LeFrak. Previously, Ms. Douglas specialized in international real estate investments and has been a key advisor to several prominent real estate companies spanning from the Canary Wharf development on the east side of London to a commercial development joint venture in Brazil. She is also a long-standing adjunct professor at Columbia Business School and teaches a course titled “Global Real Estate Investment.” Adjunct Professor Douglas’s class is known for bringing together students and top real estate industry leaders. In a recent interview with Alex Jugant ’16, she discussed her professional experience, her thoughts on the global economy, and her recommendations for aspiring real estate professionals.

Columbia Business School’s MBA Real Estate program hosted approximately 50 members of the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA) from all across the country, on campus for the prestigious PREA Institute on June 9th and 10th.

The Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate is pleased to announce that Lili Luizova ’15, Joanna Wong ’15,and Stephanie Wright ’16 have all been awarded scholarships by the organization WX, New York Women Executives in Real Estate.

On Friday, April 24th, the Real Estate Association (REA) and members of the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate met with executives and property managers from Tishman Speyer and toured the firm’s Rockefeller Center complex. The tour was led by Chris Roth ’14, a graduate of the Columbia Business School Executive MBA Program, who is responsible for asset management of Rockefeller Center.

The Columbia Business School Real Estate Association (REA) is pleased to announce the co-presidents and vice presidents elected for the 2015–16 academic year. The officers, all in the class of 2016, were elected by the REA membership. Assistant vice presidents will be elected from the incoming class in the fall.

Just in time for cherry blossoms, the Columbia Business School (CBS) Real Estate Association (REA) traveled to Washington, D.C. on April 10 to learn more about current investments trends and opportunities within this uniquely supply constrained and public sector driven market. They were joined by representatives from the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate and CBS Career Management Center for a day-long trek around D.C.’s central business district, Tysons Corner, and Reston, VA.

On Monday, March 30th, the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate hosted a screening of the film Dream Builders on campus, which was followed by a question and answer session with the firm’s principal, Peter Lehrer.

During Columbia Business School’s spring break from March 14 through 22, a group of 22 real estate students and faculty members traveled to Bogotá and Mexico City to understand more about these emerging markets, their real estate dynamics, and doing business in these cultures.

On the docket were full days of visits with local real estate players such as Terranum Capital in Bogotá and Thor Urbana Capital in Mexico City, in addition to city tours and visits to historical sites and museums.